Career: Civil Engineering
Career: Civil Engineering
as
career
education and opportunities in the philippines
HISTORY EDUCATION
Most civil engineers study for an
In more than three-and-a-half
academic degree in civil engineering over
centuries of Spanish subjugation,
three to five years to become a bachelor
there were no Filipino civil engineers.
of engineering or a bachelor of
Social prejudice constrained the repressed
technology. This generally requires a
indio builders to content themselves to be grounding in physics and mathematics as
called mere Maestro de Obras (Master well as teaching project management,
Builders) even if they could design and build design and other topics specific to civil
any type of structure that technology engineering practice. With a basic
could allow at that time. Master understanding of the principles, it is
Builders as of today were equivalent possible to then specialize in one or
to Construction Foreman. more sub-disciplines of civil engineering.